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to supplant them. Our idea of a Normal school, too, (& we shall carry it out at Alexandria) is to have a class of fifteen or twenty at least, so far advanced as to be able to practice in the model School, a Primary Class, under a district teacher. Besides these classes, we shall have a third Preparatory, a grade lower than the Normal. About Richmond I cannot, of course, speak with authority, but personally